Diaries; correspondence; research notes; manuscripts; sketches; family papers; lectures; subject files; photographs; cuttings. The day books (26 vols.) date from 1936 to 1988 and include detailed diaries and also copies of letters, manuscripts, cuttings and photographs. They document the Antarctic expeditions in great detail and also mountaineering and other expeditions and Bechervaise's career as a teacher in England and Geelong. Correspondence (15 vols.), mostly 1950-88, includes letters of Sir Douglas Mawson, Phillip Law, Sir James Darling, Marnie Bassett, Myra Roper. 'Treading on Earth' (11 vols) containing articles, drawings, cuttings, reports, invitations and other autobiographical material, 1922-88. Literary papers include drafts of poetry and Antarctic books and research material, cuttings and drafts of books on Ballarat, Bendigo, Grampians, University of Melbourne and other subjects in Sketchbook Series. An addition of 2 boxes has been received and is unavailable until processed.
